The Chief Executive of Mozilla Firefox, Brendan Eich, was forced to resign in April following a targeted campaign by LGBT groups, who opposed his $1000 donation in support of a Californian law upholding marriage between one man and one woman.
Mr Eich, who co-founded Mozilla and created the JavaScript programming language, made his donation in 2008.
Following his appointment in March this year, the dating website OkCupid urged a boycott of Mozilla Firefox and directed its users to select other internet browsers. Those who visited the website using Mozilla’s free Firefox browser saw a message reading: ‘Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid’.
